Short announcements and events

Announcements

Kevin: Has questionnaires for his project studying Noisebridge! They are anonymous and 1 page long and about Noisebridge as a space. Results of the study will be shared openly on the Noisebridge Wiki

Danny: Will hold "Noisebridge 101" classes, mainly on Mondays at 6:00pm for 1 hour, starting soon! Stop by to learn more about Noisebridge and its history and culture and operating style and tools / resources.

Consensus items

Discussion Notes

Hell's Cargo (i.e., Wells Fargo)

Kevin: Currently Noisebridge's bank account is Hell's Cargo, which is an evil bank. Let's switch to something less evil, like a local credit union. Maybe San Francisco Fire Credit Union? They have an education business account(?) and pay 2.5% interest and invest locally.

Why do we have Hell's Cargo…? Apparently last time Noisebridge proposed a switch away we didn't because it's just a bit of a pain, and a few people had direct deposits set up into our account.

General consensus seems to be in favor of at least creating a new account with SFFireCU and keeping the Hell's Cargo account until it is obsolete.

Someone (Danny? Leif?) will write a consensus proposal for next week's meeting

Attendance

Leif: Has been here for quite a while; currently interested in tahoe-lafs; started tahoe grid with tor hidden services

Angel: New to Noisebridge; does graphic design, video; wants to get more into coding

J.C.: Does hacking in general; working on creating more hackerspace in the North Bay

Joe Black: Does security, Unix, web development; first heard of Noisebridge via Mitch; has been here a couple months

Nick Shapiro: Makes games; is hiring!

Kyle: Architecture student studying Noisebridge as a community and as a space; has been here for a few months

Dan: Does any programming, web services, ...

Dan #2: Has been coming for few months; first heard of Noisebridge via a radio interview with Mitch a few years ago; has been programming so long that he is temporarily bored with it, but still gets his hands dirty with code

Dana: Likes to work on LED stuff; is today working on wearable electronics

Kevin: Has been coming for a couple months as well; does a bunch of things on the computer; works in the wood shop every once in a while; also works in kitchen; is doing well

Danny: Has been coming to Noisebridge for 3-4 years; thinks a lot and tries to write about technological culture

Joe: Third time here; has known about Noisebridge an embarrassingly long time but lived in Mountain View so he went to Hacker Dojo instead; tricked into being a computer guy; writes code, looking to build a stove

Rupert: Visting from Montreal (greetings from FooLab!); first time at Noisebridge but has known about Noisebridge for a long time (we're pretty famous :p); glad to be here and see what's going on; does hardware and software and woodshop

Luke: Also visiting from Montreal; Noisebridge is impressive, enjoys it very much; into computer vision and machine learning

Lassl: Visiting from Norway! Here for 3 days; came to Noisebridge today because he was looking for fruit but saw the Noisebridge banner and went in; electrical engineer but got bored of organized 90 degree lines, so he started doing graphic design and font and web development